Every decent human being has a dozen or so T-shirts that they wear on a regular basis. Some of them are concert shirts, some are them from college, some of them are from radio stations, and some are just plain gifts. Until now, there have been three choices in the care of these fine washables, once they're dry:

1. Take them out of the dryer as soon as they're done, and fold them.
2. Take them out of said dryer as soon as they're done, and hang them in your closet.
3. Just leave 'em in said dryer, and iron them later.

But, folding clothes takes years and years of practice and refinement. It's something that most of us will never perfect. And, you can't hang T-shirts too many times, because the neck starts to stretch out. And third, everyone knows that ironing T-shirts is right up there with folding underwear, in terms of time mangement...

Enter: the T-Shirt Rack ( with NeckSaver)

Just slip 'em on the rack as soon as they're dry, and fuggetaboutem!
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some kind of chop saw, for the joiners
a rubber mallet, maybe
and no glue, yes, no glue! (especially if you ever plan on moving)

NOTES:

1. You can get pre-cut pipe lengths at OSH, for not much more than the uncut price
2. You have to cut the 1-1/4" joiners yourself, as far as I know
3. Don't be try to be a hero by cutting the joiners to exactly 1.5" (you'll know what I mean)

LOVE this project. I am going to make 2 of these, one for laundry room and one to leave poolside. Just wondering, since some time has passed since you first made yours, if you would make any modifications in materials or design? Thanks for the great instructions.

LOVE THIS! Just made it today. I don't need it for tees, but I'm using it to dry sweaters. PHENOMENAL! The sweaters slip right over and I can tweak here and there to make them hang straight (and dry without annoying creases from the old stand-by drying rack). THANK YOU!!!!

I just roll my shirts like I'm packing... if you do it right, you get the front of the shirt (logo or print) on the outside, they pack real tight so no wrinkles, and you can fit about double the amount in the dresser! I did this when I had to pack for a trip to Europe, then never stopped after that. Search "roll clothes packing" on Google, you will find tons of tips.

A fantastic idea. Could be made more space friendly by making the whole thing vertical to attach to the wall, and have the shirt hangers at a 45 degree angle(upward). Just a thought, great idea though!

Good suggestion on the upright and angled approach. Those aspects were already included with the patent application, which was filed a while back. But I like your thinking, though. You can see another variation of the concept here...

Eww...watch those fingers. But if you have a good way to do that, you might as well shave down the T-fittings also, by as much as an inch overall on each. That way, the rack will take up much less space.

you could probably cut down on the cost by making the vertical piece resemble a T rather than an upside down U, then you would cut the cost by more than a third and you could leave off the elbows which are the most sxpensive part of the whole build. You could cut the ends of the PVC with a skill saw to round the cut similar to a elbow if you didn't want to deform the shoulders.

Hot Dog! Where were you 30 years ago when I was ironing my first husbands tee shirts (the kind that went under regular shirts)? Depending on the length of the sides, you could button regular shirts on it too. This has my vote for the most universally applicable Instructable yet (except for the one about Truffles). These should be in every household world wide. Go into production now! Great Job!!!

Nice Instructable... so what would the measurements be for medium/large shirts? I'm assuming i can put any large/extralarge on a medium rack, just don't wanna stretch out any medium shirts i have... Also, how would you go about making the wall-mountable one you mentioned, as my floorspace is very very limited.

Thanks, FluxAugur. For mediums, you could use 16" top pieces. And, you may be able to get by with pre-cut 24" side pieces, but you'd wanna measure your longest shirt from the bottom to the shoulder. To make a wall mounted one, you would need to include at least a 45 degree elbow between the side piece and the "T" fitting, for each row and on each side (24 additional pieces). I would even include a 22.5 degree elbow along with each 45 degree elbow, to get a sharper angle (basically 22 degrees from the wall). This would cost about ten more buck for a dozen shirts, but it would really have a nice low profile from the wall. You would definitely have to glue this. I would do a dry fit. Then, I would consider actually using PVC cement to make sub-assemblies of "T" fitting - 45 degree - 22 degree's. From there, you could proceed to Step 2

Thanks. Yeah, the sides are flexible enough that you can spread the shirts out to get a good look at any one of them. In fact, because you can do that, you want the shirts as close together as possible.

Yeah, I too have that ever-evolving pile of clean clothes that I call my perpetually mobile dresser (PMD). Hey, I've got an all black "Seinfeld" tee with a big picture of Newman on the front that says, "Hello, Jerry." I'd be willing to trade it for any Pearl Jam shirt.

Why don't you switch to small-size shirts? That way, you can hack down the sides and the tops. I'm kidding (about the switching part). But, seriously, you could get away with chopping the sides down by at least 4 inches, on this instructable. Then it fits nicely under a normal-height closet rod. If you really wanted to pimp it out, you could actually shave up to a half-inch off of each end of each "T" fitting (and shorten the joiners, of course). That would put the shirts at 1.5" on center, and reduce the depth by 40 percent of what you see in the photo. I would use glue, and a pretty ecent cutter, though.